Alignment of solid targets under extreme tight focus conditions generated by an ellipsoidal plasma mirror

Deepak Kumar; Michal Šmíd; Sushil Singh; Alexander Soloviev; Hannes Bohlin; Konstantin Burdonov; Gashaw Fente; Alexander Kotov; Livia Lancia; Vit Lédl; Sergey Makarov; Michael Morrissey; Sergey Perevalov; Denis Romanovsky; Sergey Pikuz; Ryousuke Kodama; David Neely; Paul McKenna; Tomáš Laštovička; Mikhail Starodubtsev; Stefan Weber; Motoaki Nakatsutsumi; Julien Fuchs

doi:10.1063/1.5088166

Alignment of solid targets under extreme tight focus conditions generated by an ellipsoidal plasma mirror

Deepak Kumar
, Michal Šmíd
, Sushil Singh
, Alexander Soloviev
, Hannes Bohlin
, Konstantin Burdonov
, Gashaw Fente
, Alexander Kotov
, Livia Lancia
, Vit Lédl
, Sergey Makarov
, Michael Morrissey
, Sergey Perevalov
, Denis Romanovsky
, Sergey Pikuz
, Ryousuke Kodama
, David Neely
, Paul McKenna
, Tomáš Laštovička
, Mikhail Starodubtsev

Stefan Weber, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi, Julien Fuchs

of Sciences
Institute of Radiooncology - OncoRay
Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Université Paris-Saclay
Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR
Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Osaka University
Central Laser Facility
University of Strathclyde
European XFEL GmbH

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Abstract

The design of ellipsoidal plasma mirrors (EPMs) for the PEARL laser facility is presented. The EPMs achieve a magnification of 0.32 in focal spot size, and the corresponding increase in focused intensity is expected to be about 8. Designing and implementing such focusing optics for short-pulse (<100 fs) systems paves the way for their use in future high-power facilities, where they can be used to achieve intensities beyond 10²³ W/cm². A retro-imaging-based target alignment system is also described, which is used to align solid targets at the output of the ellispoidal mirrors (with a numerical aperture of 0.75 in this case).

Original language	English
Article number	024402
Journal	Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5088166
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Kumar, D., Šmíd, M., Singh, S., Soloviev, A., Bohlin, H., Burdonov, K., Fente, G., Kotov, A., Lancia, L., Lédl, V., Makarov, S., Morrissey, M., Perevalov, S., Romanovsky, D., Pikuz, S., Kodama, R., Neely, D., McKenna, P., Laštovička, T., ... Fuchs, J. (2019). Alignment of solid targets under extreme tight focus conditions generated by an ellipsoidal plasma mirror. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 4(2), Article 024402. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5088166

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